Boron Cantilever and Ruby Cantilever, Why Ruby?


I have noticed that many of the better cartridges use Boron cantilevers. I know that Soundsmith uses a Ruby cantilever. I was thinkin of having my Benz Wood Body cartridge retipped but was not sure if the different material used for the cantilever will impact compliance and even sound. Why not boron like the original?
tzh21y

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Hey tobes, - - - are you out there?

you’ve answered a lagitiment question pertaining to this post, "is going through the repairing process," benificial? Pointing out a cavet’  that has to be pending, and you say "my experience is that sapphire/ruby are not particularly fragile". " I’ve been using my Denon 103R with a modded Soundsmith ruby cantilever for about 18 months - and that ’feels’ quite robust too".
Spot on man.
So now knowing that the Jem Cantilever repair isn’t impractially delicate, IS a load off, but you only answered part of your experience (how’s the sound)?#1: Is the Soundsmith ruby cantilever a sonic improvement over the factory stock Denon 103 cantilever?#2: Through your experience, do you recomend the Soundsmith route, or, if you had to do it again would you go with the factory exchange program?#3: Your make on: Sapphire cantilever vs Soundsmith ruby cantilever?
Thx,appreciate it.